{"id":1733,"date":"2008-09-18T09:45:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T14:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/09\/ummm-verbal-tics\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T14:53:00","slug":"ummm-verbal-tics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/09\/ummm-verbal-tics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ummm, Verbal Tics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am back after a refreshing break so now it is time for the home stretch of 2008.\u00a0 I have to start with something light from JustSell.com &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justsell.com\/content\/newsletter\/verbaltics.htm#minimize\">sales words: uh, verbal tics can be annoying, so&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0 The article is a provides a great insight into a common problem (my editing):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Verbal tics are words and phrases we use habitually, and sometimes, unconsciously. They&#8217;re the clutter in our speech that makes us sound less attentive, prepared, and intelligent than we want to sound.<\/p>\n<p>JustSell&#8217;s top 7 most aggravating verbal tics&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>uh<\/li>\n<li>um<\/li>\n<li>like<\/li>\n<li>you know<\/li>\n<li>I mean<\/li>\n<li>so (especially when used at the end of an unfinished sentence)<\/li>\n<li>well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We want to use words and phrases that communicate how prepared, confident and capable we are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen to that last sentence.\u00a0 Unfortunately, these habits can be hard to break since many of them are induced by pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am back after a refreshing break so now it is time for the home stretch of 2008.\u00a0 I have to start with something light from JustSell.com &#8211; sales words: uh, verbal tics can be annoying, so&#8230;\u00a0 The article is a provides a great insight into a common problem (my editing): Verbal tics are words and phrases we use habitually, and sometimes, unconsciously. They&#8217;re the clutter in our speech that makes us sound less attentive, prepared, and intelligent than we want to sound. JustSell&#8217;s top 7 most aggravating verbal tics&#8230; uh um like you know I mean so (especially when used at the end of an unfinished sentence) well We&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/09\/ummm-verbal-tics\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[903,1003,1002,1001],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-rX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->